International Society for Krishna Consciousness - PakistanThe International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) was established in 1966 by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Srila Prabhupada).
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  • 1st & 2nd initiation H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj. Ex-chairman of the festival committee Radha Parthasarathi temple Delhi.
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    The Supreme Personality of Godhead fulfills the material desires of a devotee who approaches Him with such motives, but He does not bestow benedictions upon the devotee that will cause him to demand more benedictions again. However, the Lord willingly gives the devotee shelter at His own lotus feet, even though such a person does not aspire for it, and that shelter satisfies all his desires. That is the Supreme Personality's special mercy.

     Saintly persons, who are friends to all living entities, have a peaceful consciousness. They have controlled their senses and minds, and they easily attain the path of liberation, the path back to Godhead. Being unfortunate and attached to the miserable material conditions, a materialistic person cannot associate with them.

     The path of this material world is full of material miseries, and various troubles disturb the conditioned souls. Sometimes he loses, and sometimes he gains. In either case, the path is full of danger. Sometimes the conditioned soul is separated from his father by death or other circumstances. Leaving him aside he gradually becomes attached to others, such as his children. In this way, the conditioned soul is sometimes illusioned and afraid. Sometimes he cries loudly out of fear. Sometimes he is happy maintaining his family, and sometimes he is overjoyed and sings melodiously. In this way he becomes entangled and forgets his separation from the Supreme Personality of Godhead since time immemorial. Thus he traverses the dangerous path of material existence, and on this path he is not at all happy.
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    The Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His feature of eternal time, is present in the material world and is neutral towards everyone. No one is His ally, and no one is His enemy. Within the jurisdiction of the time element, everyone enjoys or suffers the result of his own karma, or fruitive activities. As, when the wind blows, small particles of dust fly in the air, so, according to one's particular karma, one suffers or enjoys material life.

    One who actually satisfies the Supreme Personality of Godhead during one's lifetime becomes liberated from the gross and subtle material conditions. Thus being freed from all material modes of nature, he achieves unlimited spiritual bliss.

    The Lord is very satisfied with His devotee when the devotee greets other people with tolerance, mercy, friendship and equality.

     One should try to keep himself satisfied in any condition of life — whether distress or happiness — which is offered by the supreme will. A person who endures in this way is able to cross over the darkness of nescience very easily.
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    Those who are in full knowledge of the bodily conception of life, who know that this body is composed of nescience, desires and activities resulting from illusion, do not become addicted to the body.

    Persons who are peaceful, equipoised, cleansed and purified, and who know the art of pleasing all other living entities, keep friendship only with devotees of the Lord; they alone can very easily achieve the perfection of going back home, back to Godhead.

     A person who desires liberation from this material world should not fall under the control of anger because when bewildered by anger one becomes a source of dread for all others.

    Misidentification of oneself and others as "I" and "you" on the basis of the bodily concept of life is a product of ignorance. This bodily concept is the cause of repeated birth and death, and it makes us go on continuously in material existence.
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    All glories to Lord Krishna sankirtana, which cleanses the
    dust from the mirror of the mind and which awards
    immense pleasure to the heart.

    All glories to the chanting of the holy name of Lord Krishna,
    for it extinguishes the fire of material existence and removes
    all material desires.

    All glories to the chanting of the holy name of Lord Krishna.
    It appears like the moon within one`s heart, and by
    distributing its soothing rays it causes the lotus flower of
    good fortune to blossom.

    All glories to the chanting of the holy name of Lord Krishna,
    which is like a chaste bride that is devoted to transcendental
    knowledge. The chanting awards one the highest perfection
    of life.

    All glories to the chanting of the holy name of Lord Krishna,
    which increases the ocean of transcendental ecstatic love
    for Krishna. This chanting causes a flood of love for Krishna
    to overwhelm one`s heart.

    All glories to the chanting of the holy name of Lord Krishna,
    which awards a taste of fully satisfying nectar, at every step.
    This chanting helps one to develop love for Krishna.
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CHANTING THE HOLY NAME OF LORD KRISHNA. Part 3.

Mantra: "man" means "mind" and "tra" means "to deliver".Thus a mantra is a transcendental sound vibration with potency to liberate the mind from material conditioning."Hare" is the vocative case (addressing form) of "Hari". This is another name for Krsna. Also, another name for Srimati Radharani is Hara, and "Hare" is again the vocative case of this name. Thus, "Hare" refers either to Lord Hari or to Srimati Radharani. "Krsna" means "The All-Attractive". The syllable "krs" is the attractive…

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CHANTING THE HOLY NAME OF LORD KRISHNA. Part 2.

'eka' kṛṣṇa-nāme kare sarva-pāpa nāśapremera kāraṇa bhakti karena prakāśaSimply chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra without offenses vanquishes all sinful activities. Thus pure devotional service, which is the cause of love of Godhead, becomes manifest. (CC- 1:8:26).One cannot be situated in the devotional service of the Lord unless one is free from sinful life. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (7:28):yeṣāḿ tv anta-gataḿ pāpaḿ janānāḿ puṇya-karmanāmte dvandva-moha-nirmuktā bhajante māḿ…

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